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“Devo forse essere soltanto un’arancia meccanica?”

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Arancia Meccanica

“L'arte è pericolosa. È una delle sue attrattive: quando cessa di essere pericolosa, tu non la vuoi.”

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da The Face, dicembre 1984

“Non si chiedono mica quale è la causa della bontà. e allora perché il contrario?”

Anthony Burgess libro Arancia meccanica

A Clockwork Orange
Arancia Meccanica
Variante: Non si chiedono mica qual è la causa della bontà, e allora perchè il contrario?

“Ma il vero peccato sta nell’intenzione esistenziale. Un uomo che non può scegliere cessa di essere un uomo.”

Anthony Burgess

Arancia Meccanica

“La guerra è il sistema più spiccio per trasmettere una cultura.”

Anthony Burgess

da 1984 & 1985

“Se Arancia meccanica, così come 1984, rientra nel novero dei salutari moniti letterari – o cinematografici – contro l'indifferenza, la sensibilità morbosa e l'eccessiva fiducia nello Stato, allora quest'opera avrà qualche valore.”

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Origine: Lettera al Los Angeles Times http://www.archiviokubrick.it/opere/film/am/burgess.html, 13 febbraio 1972. Traduzione dall'inglese come in Arancia Meccanica, Einaudi Tascabili 351

Anthony Burgess Frasi e Citazioni

“Solo i malvagi e gli stupidi possono accordare fedeltà totale a un partito.”

Anthony Burgess

da 1984 & 1985

“Il terrorismo viene presentato dai terroristi medesimi come uno strumento ad alta finalità, ma gli strumenti hanno la tendenza ad impinguarsi delle finalità fino a sostituirsi ad esse. Lo strumento rende la vita tollerabile al funzionario, laddove la finalità non si mostra bastevole o sufficiente. Solo anime innocenti possono essere capaci di deplorare la crudeltà di mezzi necessari alla instaurazione di finalità gloriose. Uno di questi era Michail Bakunin, santo patrono degli anarchici. Bakunin aveva studiato Hegel, che insegnava l'inevitabilità dell'avvento del millennio. L'Hegelismo applicato è riscontrabile tanto nel marxismo quanto nel bakuninismo, le due dottrine che, entrambe, insegnavano come il cammino dell'inevitabilità possa essere accelerato dall'azione dell'uomo. Azione chiamata rivoluzione nella sfera delle idee, terrorismo nella sfera della pratica”

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Anthony Burgess, Corriere della Sera, 29-4-1978

“In realtà lui non ha scelta, vero? Era il proprio interesse, la paura del dolore fisico che lo hanno spinto a quel grottesco gesto di autoavvilimento. La sua insincerità era anche troppo evidente. Cessa di essere un malfattore, ma cessa anche di essere una creatura capace di scelta morale.”

Anthony Burgess

Arancia Meccanica

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“Era come un uccello del cielo celeste più raramente filato o come un vino argenteo che scorreva su un'astronave, la gravità ora non ha senso.”

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“Con donne così squisite c'è poco bisogno di afrodisiaci….”

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Anthony Burgess: Frasi in inglese

“Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).”

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Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penological theories…. Common criminals…can best be dealt with on a purely curative basis. Kill the criminal reflex, that’s all.”

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Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

“At various universities, I've seen black men who are treated very indulgently, over-indulgently. They are allowed to do what they want, take what they want, drop what they want. I met one young man in Philadelphia, a young black, who wanted to learn music. But he wouldn't learn music from whites because it was 'tainted' music. Well, this is bloody ridiculous…”

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remark made in 1971, cited in Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess (2002), p. 152
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“…the eyes, black, were all East - houris, harems, beds scented with Biblical spices; nose and lips were pan-Mediterranean. Her body…was that of the Shulamite and Italian film stars. The décolletage, with its promise of round, brown, infinitely smooth, vertiginous sensual treasure, was a torment to the blood…. Many had promised marriage, but all had gone home, the promise unfulfilled…. quite considerable capacity for all kinds of sensuous pleasure.”

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Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)

“…Your little feuilleton…recording…my crude nabob’s philistinism…”

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Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“I had a sudden longing, like a pain, for the hot smelly East, and remembered that Everett had said something about an Indian restaurant. I asked the barman, a hot-haired Irishman, and he asked one of the business-men (who, I saw now, was a Pakistani) and then was able to tell me that the Calicut Restaurant was on Egg Street, by the Poultry Market. I went there and ate insipid dahl, tough chicken, greasy pappadams, and rice that had congealed to a pudding. The décor was depressing – brown oily wallpaper, a calendar with a Bengali pin-up (buff, deliriously plump, about thirty-eight) – and it was evident that the few Indian students were eating the special curry prepared for the staff. The manager was from Pondicherry : he caled me ‘monsieur’ and was not impressed by my complaints. At least one of the waiters was from Jamaica. I went out angry and, at a pub where the landlady sniffed in curlers, drank brandy till closing-time.”

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Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“…the sin of gluttony, also the sin of lecherous intent toward an honourable and high-placed matron…. But more sin is to come, and that sin a double one, namely of lechery in act, perhaps venial in the young but by no means to be condoned, and of adultery, which Saint John saith shall be punished by fire for the act and brimstone for the stink of the ordure of the partners in that sin…. She is but a heathen…. With the instinct of her kind she knoweth the best and most secret places for lechery…. thou are bent on sin, the act of darkness…. On her breath is no honey but the smell of strong drink, the potent mingling of barley and juniper in deadly ferment…. One man is from the Antipodes but, contrary to the superstition of the vulgar, he is like other men…. It is he who seeth the cabin where thy lust worketh itself out, he remembereth lewd advice of the charioteer of Cathay…. approacheth on tiptoe the sound of beastly gratification…. Lust croucheth now above in the rooftree, his wings fearfully foldeth…. But in his rage he spareth not her, calling her Jezebel and harlot….”

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Fiction, Devil of a State (1961)

“…when I went out I tried to push the door instead of pulling it. 'Pull it, mate,' said someone, and I had to obey. I nearly tripped over a footscraper and, the door closed, had the impression of loud laughter. The vile blunt-razor-blade wind blew hard from my sister’s house. I felt ashamed and furious. In the East there was politeness, doors opened the right way, there were no footscrapers.”

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Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“The story of English literature, viewed aesthetically, is one thing; the story of English writers is quite another. The price of contributing to the greatest literature the world has ever seen is often struggle and penury: art is still too often its own reward. It is salutary sometimes to think of the early deaths of Keats, Shelley, Byron, Chatterton, Dylan Thomas, of the Grub Street struggles of Dr. Johnson, the despair of Gissing and Francis Thompson. That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”

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Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)

“[Stendhal] was small, ugly and obsessed by physical beauty in others, and he spent most of his time in salons and opera houses, pursuing aristocratic hostesses and singers. After the fall of Napoleon, he retired to Italy, adopted his pseudonym and began to write. He was a sexual freebooter who “found a notion of obtaining happiness from a virtuous woman wholly inconceivable.””

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At 59, unmarried, syphilitic and obscure, he dropped dead in a Paris street.
"Homage to QWERT YUIOP".
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

“Now we were the very good malchicks, smiling good evensong to one and all, though these wrinkled old lighters started to get all shook, their veiny old rookers all trembling round their glasses, and making the suds spill on the table. 'Leave us be, lads,' said one of them, her face all mappy with being a thousand years old, 'we’re only poor old women.”

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Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

“The British arrived with no intention of conquest: the East India Company had set up trading posts on the western seaboard, and its officers were called on by the native sultans to help with the putting down of rapacious river barons. The parallel with India is exact, and Stamford Raffles is a perfect analogue of Robert Clive. First came trade, then the amateur protective army, finally the flag….”

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Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

“…Daudet differs from the hate-filled Baudelaire and Maupassant in being gentle to fellow-sufferers from the disease of life. Syphilis in him did not engender misanthropy.”

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"A Pox on Literature" - review of The Horror of Life by Roger L. Williams.
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)